Popular Politics Means Noise, And What Intelligence Needs Is Calm.

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Popular politics means noise, and what intelligence needs is calm.
At times, through a painful imposition of Providence, Dante is in exile,
Cervantes in prison; Beethoven is deaf and Milton is blind.

It was in the golden solitude of a farm in the outskirts of Rome that
Horace could write his "Odes" and Virgil his "Aeneid," never in a
Parliamentary seat.
-- Felipe Torroba Bernaldo de Quiros

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